Taylor Swift Announces New Album ‘Red’

Taylor Swift announced plans for a new album during a Web cast and Google+ Hangout on Monday evening. Swift told an audience of fans about the release of her new album titled “Red” scheduled for Oct. 22. “We’ve already done so much work for this. I’ve been working on this for two years,” Swift told the crowd. The singer then unveiled the cover for the new album before taking questions from fans. Swift responded to a question about the name for the album by telling the audience: “I wrote a song called ‘Red.’ And, thinking about what that means to me and all the different emotions that are written about on this album, they’re all pretty much the kind of tumultuous, crazy, insane, intense, semi-toxic relationships that I’ve experienced in the last two years. And, all those emotions spanning from intense love, intense frustration, jealousy, confusion, all of that, in my mind, all those emotions are red. There’s nothing in between. There’s nothing beige about any those feelings so I called the record ‘Red.’” Swift said there are 16 songs on the album, not counting any bonus tracks. For the new album she reached out to people in music whom she admires and co-wrote songs with them, including British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, with whom she performs a duet together on “Red.” “We wrote a song while sitting on a trampoline,” she said. “I’m so excited because I’m such a huge fan of his.” Swedish producer and songwriter Max Martin also worked on “Red.” The first single from the new album is called “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.”